Applying SHETRAN in a Tropical West African Catchment (Dano, Burkina Faso)—Calibration, Validation, Uncertainty Assessment

Modelling of Land-use Changes in a West African Catchment

Land-cover and land-use changes are an important part of global change but determine as well livelihoods at local and regional level. The knowledge of change trajectories and possible future conditions is important for a sustainable development strategy. Further on, reliable scenarios with spatial explicit simulations are needed as planning tools for decision makers. This paper describes an exa...

1 Impact of Tropical SST Anomalies on West African Rainfall

Self-assessment questions Massive splenomegaly in tropical West Africa

Case 1 A 32-year-old woman presented with lethargy and an abdominal mass which had been present for 3 years. On examination she had moderately pale conjunctivae but no jaundice or lymphadenopathy and there were no stigmata of chronic liver disease. A non-tender, massively enlarged, firm spleen was palpable 24 cm below the costal margin and there was hepatomegaly of 2 cm with no detectable ascit...

Graphical user interface for rapid set-up of SHETRAN physically-based river catchment model

The SHETRAN physically-based distributed rainfall-runoff modelling system gives detailed simulations in time and space of water flow and sediment and solute transport in river catchments. It is therefore a powerful tool for studying hydrological and environmental impacts associated with land-use and climate change. A Graphical User Interface (GUI) has been developed that allows a catchment data...

A review on West African Ebola epidemic dynamics models

Background and aims: The world is threatened by disease outbreak that reaches a public health emergency of international concern, studies to inform public and agencies for effective containment strategy are necessary. Several studies provided vital information of the dynamics and control of Ebola epidemic outbreak in West Africa. Methodologies and techniques in those researches...